+Over the past few years, tcpdump has been steadily improved by the
+excellent contributions from the Internet community (just browse
+through the [change log](CHANGES)). We are grateful for all the input.
+
+### Supported platforms
+In many operating systems tcpdump is available as a native package or port,
+which simplifies installation of updates and long-term maintenance. However,
+the native packages are sometimes a few versions behind and to try a more
+recent snapshot it will take to compile tcpdump from the source code.
+
+tcpdump compiles and works on at least the following platforms:
+
+* AIX
+* DragonFly BSD
+* FreeBSD
+* Haiku
+* HP-UX 11i
+* GNU/Linux
+* {Mac} OS X / macOS
+* NetBSD
+* OpenBSD
+* OpenIndiana
+* OpenWrt
+* Solaris
+* Windows (requires WinPcap or Npcap, and Visual Studio with CMake)
+
+### Dependency on libpcap